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Latino Startups Outdoing Mainstream

2:41 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · business

28 Sep 2005

officeworkers-latino-lo.jpgYears after the dot-com boom and bust, it seems that start-up businesses are beginning to pick up speed again, and who is leading the pack? Latinos, according to this Seattle Times article via HispanicTips:


Latinos and immigrants start companies at higher rates than white non-Latinos, while blacks increasingly are jumping into business ownership, a new study finds.

…Two surprising results emerged from the study, Fairlie said. The number of Latinos who started businesses jumped to 0.48 percent of the adult population last year from 0.38 percent in 1996

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